Episode 33: Nursing Mannequins and Earthquake Research

Model Patients Boost Nursing Students' Skills:High-tech mannequins are the star recruits at the University of Melbourne School of Nursing and Social Work’s new simulation ward. The mannequins and the ward give nursing students the chance to hone their skills in a realistic environment before they head out for their clinical training in hospitals. The new ward – at Level 5, 234 Queensberry Street Carlton - will be open on Open Day on Sunday 17 August.

Demolition Earthquake Research:
An Office of Housing project has enlisted the expertise of The University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology and Delta Demolitions to assess how medium -high rise public housing behave under seismic conditions. It is a rare occurrence that Australian researchers get to test urban buildings for their performance under earthquake conditions. They were able to do so at the demolition of part of the Carlton Public Housing Estate in June 2008.